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  Title Cannon Street station rail crash
  Date 8 January 1991
  Location Cannon Street Station
  Line London - Sevenoaks
  Cause Driver error
  Trains 1
  Pax
  Deaths 2
  Injuries 200


The Cannon Street station rail crash was an accident on the British railway system which occurred on from Sevenoaks failed to stop at a dead end and collided with a Buffer Stop at around 10 mph.


INQUIRY


No fault in the train's until three days after the accident, whereupon traces of Cannabis were found in his system. The Public Inquiry found that there was insufficient evidence to suggest this had caused the accident.

The inquiry found that the cause of the accident was solely that of driver error. However, contributory factors were:
  • The age of the elderly trains increased the effect of the impact. Of the two coaches that suffered the worst damage, one was built on an underbody dating from 1934, having been refitted with a new body in 1953 and involved in a previous collision with a locomotive in 1958; the other was built on an underframe from 1928.

  • The interior design of the coaches' fittings and the large number of slam doors could have resulted in weaknesses in the structure of the rolling stock.

  • More research is needed on the effect of impacts on passengers, particularly standing passengers, on board commuter trains.

  • Automatic Train Protection , or ATP, should be installed as quickly as practicably possible.

  • On-train data recorders would make the finding of evidence easier following railway accidents.

  • Legislation should be introduced to make it an offence for railway staff with safety responsibilities to be intoxicated while on duty. (A secondary cause of the Eltham Well Hall Rail Crash ).

  • Sliding Buffer Stops might have minimised the injury compared to the hydraulic buffer stops in this incident.

  • Arrangements for the booking-on of staff should be reviewed (a recommendation also made in the report for the Eltham Well Hall Rail Crash ).



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